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Friday, Oct 29 2021, 7AM
Scottish electro-pop trio CHVRCHES have covered Gerard McMann's “Cry Little Sister,” also known as 'The Lost Boys' theme. The track by CHVRCHES appears in the new film 'Nightbooks'.
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Here's CHVRCHES live on KEXP back in 2013: www.youtube.com
"I didn't want the song to be specific to the vampire. I wanted it to be about the longing for family from a rejected youth's perspective, which I went through myself and that many of us have felt."
Here's an interview with songwriter and singer G Tom Mac. You may recognize him better as Gerard McMahon (or McMann, since he has changed his name): bit.ly
"On a gathering storm comes a tall handsome man In a dusty black coat with a red right hand."
Listen to Nick Cave's former paramour, PJ Harvey, as she covers this one for the Netflix show, "Peaky Blinders": www.youtube.com
For Nelle and Haley in Portland!
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This track features vocals by Conor Oberst, who is in Better Oblivion Community Center with Phoebe Bridgers.
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Watch a moving live performance of "Halloween" from the Los angeles Memorial Coliseum: www.youtube.com
Watch a live performance by KEXP favs DeVotchKa in our studio in 2018: www.youtube.com
That's Michael Stipe collaborating with Kristin Hersh on this first track from her debut solo studio album, Hips and Makers (1994).
John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter, and Daniel Davies have released their original soundtrack for the new movie "Halloween Kills." "Halloween Kills (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)" came out on October 15th.
Read John Carpenter on the songs that made him a horror icon: bit.ly
OMG....it's the (spooky) Friday song! Good luck out there, Henry, trick-or-treating as a Portland Marathon runner (and be careful with that medal!)
The lyric "I hear the chauffeur coming to my door/Says there's room for maybe just one more" is a reference to "The Bus-Conductor", a short story involving a hearse driver by E. F. Benson, published in The Pall Mall Magazine in 1906.
This band was formed by songwriter Richard Elfman in 1972, originally named "The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo"; Richard's brother Danny Elfman joined in 1975 and took over lead duties, shortening the name in 1979 (Yes it's that Danny Elfman).: musicianguide.com
"It's astounding, time is fleeting
Madness takes its toll
But listen closely, not for very much longer
I've got to keep control...": bit.ly
"Let's do the time warp again!": www.youtube.com
Looking back from a distance of more than 40 years, Bauhaus’s singer Peter Murphy is in no doubt about the significance of his band’s debut single. “‘Bela Lugosi’s Dead’ just happened to be a seminal song,” he explains. “It was the ‘Stairway To Heaven’ of the 1980s.”
“It definitely has a timeless quality,” agrees ex-Bauhaus drummer Kevin Haskins. “On reflection, I marvel at what we did. We were just four young kids who wanted to make something unique, without really having much idea what we were doing. But that song came out of it.”: bit.ly
Speaking of Bauhaus...
Tones on Tail was initially formed by Bauhaus guitarist Daniel Ash. They had one solo album, "Pop"; "Christian Says" was their last single and came out in November, 1984. After Tones on Tail broke up in 1984, Ash, Kevin Haskins, and Daniel J formed Love and Rockets.
Speaking of Love and Rockets....
This eponymous album was Love and Rockets' fourth studio album.
See Love and Rockets perform "Bound for Hell" live in 1989: www.youtube.com
De Souza has said in the past she often thinks about death and the global pandemic has certainly brought the fragility of life into sharp focus. However, De Souza’s work does seem to subtly suggest that having a sense of our own mortality can be employed as a motivational tool, almost as if knowing that our time here is finite we have a duty to try and live our best lives.
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Indigo de Souza was LIVE on KEXP recently. Look for the video of that performance to be up on our YouTube channel soon!
Toadies frontman Vaden Todd Lewis told the story behind this song. "I was dating a girl and I had this dream that she had invited me to a party, so I'm going to go to this party. I'm walking down the street and as I get closer to the party there's a mailbox on fire, then there's a trash can on fire and then eventually there's just whole houses engulfed in flames. So, I'm getting closer to the party and I get to this house and I kind of walk around the back where the party is and it's all these people jumping around and dancing around. There's music, there's drums and there's a giant bonfire and one by one these people are throwing themselves into the fire.
The idea is that they were going to transcend their physical bodies by immolation, so they were going to burn themselves in order to become some higher power, something bigger outside the physical realm. And that's what 'I Burn' is about. That's taking the voice of somebody who was in that cult or whatever you want to call it."
After an awkward introduction by Ben Stiller and Janeane Garofolo, watch Smashing Pumpkins perform "Bury Me" live in 1992: www.youtube.com
Hi John! Can you play the Stranger Things theme? Thanks!
- Kris in cap hill
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Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein are two members of the Austin, Texas, instrumental electronic group Survive (who prefers its name be displayed in all-caps with spaces in between each letter — S U R V I V E).
Here's a biography of this theatrical industrial/dance group out of Chicago: www.allmusic.com
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Oh, BTW, here's a video on how you can make a daisy chain, for yourself, or Satan!: www.youtube.com
"How did I arrive in a place like this?
Red right hand does the alligator kiss..."
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See the very talented Alex Ounsworth in this live performance of "Satan" in Paris in 2014: www.youtube.com
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Watch Clap Your Hands Say Yeah's 2015 Live on KEXP performance here- www.youtube.com
Another song in our Satan series...
Lemmy Kilmister preferred Motorhead's cover to the Stones' original. “I thought we beat them,” he told USA Today. “I thought we beat it to death. I mean, I like the Stones’ version, but I like ours better.”
R.I.P., Lemmy, who died in December, 2015, at age 70: www.nytimes.com
Good morning John - In honor of Halloween, would you play Frankenstein by The Edgar Winter Group? Thanks!
Stevie B from Seattle
Oscar-nominated actor Ryan Gosling gets a friend (Zach Shields) and a children's choir together for a truly unusual and surprising record.: pitchfork.com
Celebrate Linus' unwavering belief in The Great Pumpkin: www.nytimes.com
Peanuts + Ministry = love it! --Kara
In 2018, to celebrate the closing of the band’s Autumn tour at the Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles, Uncle Al treated Ministry fans to a special surprise! Jourgensen brought onstage former bandmate Chris Connelly and Jane’s Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro to perform the goth club classic “(Everyday Is) Halloween” for the first time in more than 30 years.: www.youtube.com
"Nobody wields a mic stand in the business better than Andrew Eldritch. That's my story and I'm sticking to it." --Eric
The title refers to Lucretia Borgia of the prominent Borgia family of the Italian Renaissance, who were notorious for their ruthless political tactics and alleged crimes. Lucretia herself is often cited as a murderer with a penchant for poison. Lead singer Andrew Eldritch wrote the track for bandmate Patricia Morrison (bass), who "always strikes me as a Lucrezia [Borgia]-type person." bit.ly
This was written for the movie "The Crow." James O'Barr, who created The Crow and draws the comic, is a big fan of The Cure and listened to them a lot formulating the movie. He was thrilled when Robert Smith of The Cure agreed to write an original song for the film.
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The song was written recorded at a time when the band was undergoing one of its numerous lineup changes and features only vocalist Robert Smith and former drummer Boris Williams. Smith felt that this state of flux may have been the creative spark for writing and recording the track: "The whole thing was turned around in like two days... I just had the idea and we just recorded like me and him in the studio... very much like I did the 'Top' album, actually, he just sort of jammed the drums and I was just playing along."
The line up for the "Juju" album was Siouxsie (vocals), Steven Severin (bass), John McGeoch (guitar) and Budgie (drums). It was their 4th studio album and came out in June 1981 on Polydor. By this time the band were veering away from their punk rock roots and helping to kick start the 80's goth rock scene.: bit.ly
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This 1981 live version of "Halloween" featured the late John McGeoch, who was the Banshees guitarist at this time.: www.youtube.com
"Bark at the Moon" was the first studio album Ozzy released without lead guitarist Randy Rhoads, who died in a plane crash the year before while the band was touring in Florida. Jake E. Lee took over on guitar.
Lee and bass player Bob Daisley wrote the song with Ozzy, but weren't credited as part of an agreement they made with Osbourne's record company. The album lists Ozzy as the solo composer of all the songs, which is far from true. In 2003, Daisley filed a lawsuit against the Osbournes, claiming lost royalties for his significant songwriting contributions.
"My head was about to explode when I noticed the Marshall stacks
I noticed all the smoke machines, cameras and the lights
Some guy with a microphone, runnin' around dancin' in tights
And I noticed the crew and the band playin' down below
And I realized I was in a rock video..."
Here's an animated video for this ditty: www.youtube.com
"I saw Elvis make out with Jesus in a yellow limousine..."
Watch the wonderful Bobby Bare, Jr. perform "Rock and Roll Halloween" live in KEXP's old studio: www.youtube.com
Please play Rocket From The Crypt for Tracy and Aaron (Amplifier-parents gone wild) who are headed to San Diego to see them play tonight.
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After the breakup of Pitchfork in 1990, singer/guitarist John Reis (aka "Speedo") formed both Drive Like Jehu and Rocket from the Crypt, the latter named after an underground '70s punk band called Rocket from the Tombs. Rocket from the Crypt's 1992 album Circa: Now! led to a recording contract with Interscope Records.
Meanwhile, the band made an offer to fans: anyone who shows up at their gigs with an RFTC tattoo gets in free. A lot of people took the band up on this over the next dozen years.: www.sandiegoreader.com
"That video will always be the total personification of an absolute nightmare to me."--Zach Cowie, music director, Master Of None
Could this be the most terrifying music video ever?: www.redbull.com
FROM A LACERATED SKYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
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Check out this mashup of Slayer (!!) and the B-52's: www.youtube.com
"He's got his cloven hoof on the clutch...."
The idea for this song came when one of the band heard a radio preacher say the devil could be anywhere, "even in your car." They began to wonder what it would really be like to have a devil in your car.: www.azlyrics.com